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| Chapter XXV. Of the unique vase of oil thrown away by Abbot John at his senior's command.
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Chapter XXV.
Of the unique vase of oil thrown away by Abbot John at
his senior’s command.
Thus the youth, trained
up by exercises of this sort, daily increased in this virtue of
obedience, and shone forth more and more with the grace of humility;
and when the sweet odour of his obedience spread throughout all the
monasteries, some of the brethren, coming to the elder for the sake of
testing him or rather of being edified by him, marvelled at his
obedience of which they had heard; and so the older called him
suddenly, and said, “Go up and take this cruse of
oil”786
| 786 Lenticula;
the word used for a cruse of oil in the Vulgate. 1 Sam. x. 1; 2 Kings ix. 1, 3. | (which was the
only one in the desert and which furnished a very scanty supply of the
rich liquid for their own use and for that of strangers) “and
throw it down out of window.” And he flew up stairs when summoned
and threw it out of window and cast it down to the ground and broke it
in pieces without any thought or consideration of the folly of the
command, or their daily wants, and bodily infirmity, or of their
poverty, and the trials and difficulties of the wretched desert in
which, even if they had got the money for it, oil of that quality, once
lost, could not be procured or replaced.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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